( Supplied photo )“This is the most thoughtful brief (on Canada immigration) I’ve seen in 10 years,” said Queen’s University immigration law professor Sharry Aiken. With major changes made in the last decade under the former Conservative government, legal and immigration experts are calling on Immigration Minister John McCallum to have a “national conversation” on the future of Canadian immigration. With 35 per cent of male newcomers returning home and a growing middle class in developing countries less inclined to migrate, an internal government review is calling the future of Canadian immigration into question. Article Continued Below“The Liberals have good political instincts and like to be seen as doing more on the immigration front. Jeffrey Reitz, director of ethnic, immigration and pluralism studies at U of T, said dependents of economic immigrants should not be seen as a drag on the Canadian economy.

Source: thestar June 02, 2016 09:56 UTC